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Chris G Veitch replied to the discussion Successful case of accessible destination development in the forum Accessible Travel Academy 3 years ago
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Hi, regretfully there is probably no one destination where they can show the ROI or other measurable impact of improved accessibility. A key question is of course ‘Accessible for whom” for wheelchair users or universally accessible? This said there are a number of significant destinations recognised for their great work and commitment to…
Ohayo Travel replied to the discussion Successful case of accessible destination development in the forum Accessible Travel Academy 3 years ago
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Thanks for the comment and sorry for my late response.
Seems like there are no such cases as far as the participants here acknowledge. The appraisal of accessible travel is generally made of the outcome of questionnaires or comments of the stakeholders, and weak in presenting its economic value – the asset value they created or the…
Eleonora replied to the discussion Successful case of accessible destination development in the forum Accessible Travel Academy 3 years ago
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Hello! That would be great to have, but I do not know of any oranisation who has done an exact monitoring in terms of number of visitors with a disability, the data tends to be rather scattered and difficult to aggregate. ENAT is perhaps doing something in this sense at the moment?
Ohayo TravelOhayo Travel started the discussion Successful case of accessible destination development in the forum Accessible Travel Academy 3 years ago
Successful case of accessible destination development
Hello all, do we have any business cases of successful accessible destination development where the travel sector and related businesses show a measurable positive impact. For example, a remarkable increase of travelers with disabilities, the increase of the visitors in general to the destination mainly due to the improvement of their…
Does anyone have any information on the worldwide (regional one also fine) accessible tourism market data? Population, market volume, unit amount per travel, growth rate, segment characteristics, etc.
It could be like the population of people with accessibility needs, the frequency of their traveling compared to that of people…
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I’m sure that @getaboutable @pieterghijsels and @Martin have some great info!
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Hi! We’ll look into it but I would recommend MyTravelResearch report from 2018 (Carolyn Childs) for instance and the latest edition that’s coming out soon of John Morris’ research as well (2020 survey on accessible tourism):
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